All,


On systems where we're running Oracle database instances, we generally have 
four filesystems dedicated to Oracle named: /u01, /u02, /u03, & /u04.



Since these are used by a DBMS, we don't want to back them up with TSM using 
normal filesystem backups as those backups would be useless.



(The databases are instead backed up via TDPO or RMAN.)



So, we want to exclude those four filesystems from TSM backups.



We should be able to put these entries in the include-exclude file (normally 
configured as "/{usr|opt}/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/inclexcl")

to exclude those filesystems:



exclude.fs /u01

exclude.fs /u02

exclude.fs /u03

exclude.fs /u04



...but, I've found that for some reason those don't seem to work.



So, instead, I've tried these entries:



exclude.dir /u01

exclude.dir /u02

exclude.dir /u03

exclude.dir /u04



...which do seem to work.

Which is the correct syntax to exclude the filesystems?

Thanks,

Craig